Tom Andersen's blog about Long Island Sound
posted by Tom Andersen at 8:33 AM
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This Fine Piece of Water - An Environmental History of Long Island Sound
This is a blog about environmental issues in the New York area in general and Long Island Sound in particular. I'm the author of "This Fine Piece of Water: An Environmental History of Long Island Sound," which came out in 2002. I wrote about the environment and other issues during almost two decades as a newspaper reporter.
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Do they have to pay the the resident rate or the visitor rate?
My last two credits in graduate school were a literature review on the Lion's Mane jellyfish, Cyanea capillata, the one that we've been seeing.
Part of the Lion's Mane's life history is that it spends time as a polyps on the underside of hard surfaces. As a polyps, its tentacles segment, or bud, and break free. These fragments are what develop into the medusa, or jellyfish with which most of us are familiar.
Researchers found that the Lion's Mane polyps bud in cold water and stop when the temperature reaches 58 degrees F.
Back in the late 70's, when we had some cold Spring weather, and the water temperature remained cold later, we had large numbers of Lion's Manes in the Sound. This year, we had a similar situation with water temperature, and it looks like we had the same outcome with the Lion's Manes.
Rick
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